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The French psychiatrist Jacques-Joseph Moreau published a book called Hashish and Mental Illness in 1845, the same year that Scientific American brought out its first issue. In it, he explored his own experiences with the drug cannabis at the Paris-based Club des Hachichins—some of which took place alongside the likes of Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac and Charles Baudelaire. Two years earlier Moreau described the “undescribable delights” of a “marvelous substance.” But in his 1845 book, he noted in great clinical detail the similarities to psychosis when ingesting high doses. Nearly two centuries later the possible link between cannabis use...

Save Share Bank runs are always extraordinary. But the first bank run of the social media age has been something else. The speed with which Silicon Valley Bank collapsed on Friday night under the staggering weight of $US42 billion ($63 billion) of withdrawals, and then had its depositors bailed out on Sunday night in similarly short order, is in part due to the power of social media, and the speed with which information travels across it.

The View host Sunny Hostin took a swing at the intelligence of the Founding Fathers during Friday's show.Hostin's co-hosts were discussing the allegations that surfaced regarding undisclosed gifts given to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. While there have been calls by members of Congress to have the Department of Justice look into the alleged gifts, the celebrity hosts were discussing who is in charge of checking the Supreme Court."I learned there were three different branches of government. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t know that. You have the judicial Branch, then you have the executive Branch, then you have the...

Explanation: Transformed into the petals of a flower, 16 exposures show the passage of day into night in this creative timelapse skyscape. Start at the top and move counterclockwise to follow consecutive moments as the twilight sky turns an ever darker blue and night blossoms. Each exposure was recorded on the evening of April 22, calculated to maintain a consistent balance of light and color. Close to the western horizon on that date, a crescent Moon and Venus are the two brightest celestial beacons. Petal to petal the pair spiral closer to the flower's center. In silhouette around the center...

“Our Identity as Church: Living Stones and a Holy Priesthood” (1 Peter 2:2-10) There’s a lot of talk about “identity” these days. How do you “identify”? What do you identify as? A guy may be born as a male, but now he decides that he identifies as a woman. It doesn’t matter what the reality is, because that’s how he identifies. Whoops, I should watch my pronouns: If that’s how “she” identifies, then that’s who “she” is. And you have no right to say any different. Identity. How do you self-identify? How do you see yourself? “I’m an American!” “I’m...

“I feel so free and very feminine,” said Spino, who works in marketing. “We’re taught to believe that women can only be sexy with long hair, but I get so many comments from men and women telling me my buzz cut is so hot.” For women, this season the buzz cut is … well, buzzy. At the Met Gala on Monday, “Don’t Worry Darling” star Florence Pugh, 27, debuted her newly shaved head on the red carpet. On TikTok, the hashtag #GirlsWithShavedHeads has amassed over 106.7 million views, with w“People are really into low-maintenance hair now, and a buzz cut...

Half of the 16 so-called fake electors in Georgia who sought to falsely declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election have accepted immunity deals in the local criminal investigation into the matter, their lawyer said in a court filing on Friday.

Sabre is cutting 15 percent of its workforce, part of an effort to save $200 million annually. Sabre previously reported that it had employed nearly 7,500 people at the end of 2022. The announcement came during an earnings call Thursday morning, the first for Kurt Ekert since he was named CEO in March. came during an earnings call Thursday morning, the first for Kurt Ekert since he was named CEO in Mar "I am confident that these actions will better position us for the future and put us on a direct path to achieving our financial and strategic targets.” The...

Those of you who’ve seen the British House of Cards (the 1990 TV series on which the US House of Cards is based) may chuckle at its very flattering portrayal of Charles as a near-saintly prince, earnestly devoted to the public good, but ruthlessly done in by the nefarious prime minister. That the fabulously wealthy Windsors are among our very highest overlords is a fact unknown to most of us, since the true history of Britain’s global doings has (with just a few exceptions) either been blacked out or wildly prettified; and so this powerful new half-hour documentary is one...

The Biden administration on Friday cleared New York’s congestion pricing plan to move forward, approving an environmental review that suffered such significant delays many doubted the first-in-the-nation tolling system would ever happen. The Federal Highway Administration issued a letter approving the New York Metropolitan Transportation’s Authority environmental assessment and issued a draft “Finding of No Significant Impact” that will now be up for public review for 30 days, according to a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO. The news means the agency has been given the green light to start charging drivers entering central Manhattan at peak times in...

Hollywood star Richard Dreyfuss, an Academy Award–winning actor best known for his role in the Jaws, said in an interview that the new diversity rules imposed by the Oscars for films to be eligible for the “Best Picture” award “make me vomit.” “They make me vomit,” Dreyfuss told Margaret Hoover on Firing Line which aired Friday night on PBS. “This is an art form. No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is.” New policies enacted by the Oscrars in 2024 will see film...

The bill to raise America’s debt ceiling passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives on April 27th caps spending in 2024 at its level in 2022, and then raises budgets by 1% a year. That may sound reasonable but it excludes mandatory spending on pensions and health care and ignores inflation. China’s increasing indebtedness is kept off the books in opaque “financing vehicles” used by local governments. Include everything and China’s total public debts are over 120% of gdp, and will rise to nearly 150% by 2027, on imf forecasts. Such levels of debt are affordable only because China...

The Pontifical Marian Academy inaugurated an “Observatory for Marian Apparitions and Mystical Phenomena” in mid-April.Father Stefano Cecchin, President of the Academy, told AlfaYOmega.es (April 30), that [the stupid] bishops are "not prepared" to deal with apparitions.So, his academy will do it. The bishop will then rubber-stamp ("decide") Cecchin's decision, which means: more Vatican centralism. Previously, each bishop was responsible for apparitions in his diocese.Cecchin says that there are "warning signs" which show that an apparition is false, “Would a mother want to punish her children by sending them illness, death...?" he sentimentalises. His answer, "Not at all." According to him,...

The Oakland Athletics said they are "working to address the situation" after play-by-play announcer Glen Kuiper apologized on the air for appearing to use a racial slur during a pregame segment before Friday's game at the Kansas City Royals. Kuiper appeared to say the slur on NBC Sports California when he referred to a visit to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Before the start of the sixth inning, Kuiper apologized. "Welcome back to Kauffman Stadium. I just want to ... a little earlier in the show, I said something, didn't come out quite the way I...

He understands our faithBritain today celebrates the crowning of a new king, but the coronation will be watched and celebrated by millions across the Commonwealth. To an extent that is often not appreciated abroad, the Queen – who was Defender of the Faith – was revered by her subjects of all faiths. In our often sectarian world, she exerted a unifying force: one that her son recognised and exemplifies. King Charles is deeply informed of Muslim beliefs, culture and mores Muslims in Britain and the world over will recognise, in King Charles, a monarch who is deeply Islamophilic. He has...

King Charles III and Camilla, the queen consort, were officially crowned king and queen during a coronation ceremony Saturday at Westminster Abbey, the first coronation there since that of Charles' mother, Queen Elizabeth II, back in 1953. Massive crowds lined the royals' route to and from the ceremony over the course of several hours. Charles and Camilla began their procession toward the coronation from Buckingham Palace through Central London in a golden carriage led by eight horses. About 200 members of the British military were mounted on horses as part of the procession, largely drawn from what's known as the...

The American economy is headed toward a “trainwreck” as out-of-control money printing and government spending collide with reality, warned former director of Ronald Reagan’s Office of Management and Budget, David Stockman, in this interview on Conversations That Matter with The New American magazine’s Alex Newman. The question now is how many collisions, how bad it ricochets, and how bad it hits average Americans, he said. Among other concerns, Stockman noted that living standards are going down as inflation far above what the feds admit is happening eats away savings, and wages fail to keep up. Expect that to continue getting...

n his rousing keynote address at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary gala last month, then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson offered an unexpected piece of advice: “Don’t throw away your hard-copy books.” Unlike digitized books, films, and albums that can be canceled, rewritten, or vanished altogether, physical copies are “the enduring repository that cannot be disappeared.” With their resurrection of poetry recitation requirements, educators in Georgia and Arkansas are protecting that repository in more ways than one, steeping students in a reality they can affirm, trust, and love. Both states’ departments of education recently proposed revised K-12 English language arts standards...

Republican-led states are pushing back against the radical LGBT movement with a wave of new laws restricting devastating transgender surgeries and drugs for children.2023 has been a breakthrough year in the fight to stop LGBT ideology and protect children from its harms. Since January, 14 states have approved laws to ban or limit “gender transitions” for minors, which have exploded in popularity in recent years as gender confusion has surged among youth.

The newly introduced Los Angeles 'mansion tax' has frozen luxury home sales with just two properties above $5 million sold in April which is down from 126 in March. The policy, which came into effect April 1, sees the city take a four percent cut of all home sales between $5 million and $10 million. And for mega mansions that break the $10 million threshold, homeowners lose 5.5 percent of their sale price if they decide to cash in on their estate. There were just two homes sold for more than $5 million once the new policy was introduced in...